Pacific Ocean is to west side of country. It shares its maritime borders with, Haiti, Jamaica, Honduras, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic and Nicaragua. It is 26 th largest nation in world and fourth largest in the South America after, Peru, Argentina and Brazil. Colombia has 29 th largest population in world and second largest in the South America. It has 3 rd largest Spanish speaking population after Spain and Mexico.

Territory of Colombia was inhabited originally by the indigenous tribes including Quimbaya, Muisca and Tarrona. Spanish arrived in late 1499 and was initiated in period of the colonization and conquest that ultimately led carton of Viceroyalty of a New Granada comprising Colombian modern-day, Ecuador,